Learning React by Eve Porcello, Alex Banks. O’Reilly 2017

1. Preface
   1. Conventions Used in This Book
   2. Using Code Examples
   3. O’Reilly Safari
   4. How to Contact Us
   5. Acknowledgments
2. 1. Welcome to React
   1. Obstacles and Roadblocks
      1. React Is a Library
      2. New ECMAScript Syntax
      3. Popularity of Functional JavaScript
      4. JavaScript Tooling Fatigue
      5. Why React Doesn’t Have to Be Hard to Learn
   2. React’s Future
   3. Keeping Up with the Changes
   4. Working with the Files
      1. File Repository
      2. React Developer Tools
      3. Installing Node.js
3. 2. Emerging JavaScript
   1. Declaring Variables in ES6
      1. const
      2. let
      3. Template Strings
      4. Default Parameters
   2. Arrow Functions
   3. Transpiling ES6
   4. ES6 Objects and Arrays
      1. Destructuring Assignment
      2. Object Literal Enhancement
      3. The Spread Operator
   5. Promises
   6. Classes
   7. ES6 Modules
   8. CommonJS
4. 3. Functional Programming with JavaScript
   1. What It Means to Be Functional
   2. Imperative Versus Declarative
   3. Functional Concepts
      1. Immutability
      2. Pure Functions
      3. Data Transformations
      4. Higher-Order Functions
      5. Recursion
      6. Composition
      7. Putting It All Together
5. 4. Pure React
   1. Page Setup
   2. The Virtual DOM
   3. React Elements
   4. ReactDOM
   5. Children
   6. Constructing Elements with Data
   7. React Components
      1. createClass
      2. ES6 Classes
      3. Stateless Functional Components
   8. DOM Rendering
   9. Factories
6. 5. React with JSX
   1. React Elements as JSX
      1. JSX Tips
   2. Babel
   3. Recipes as JSX
   4. Intro to Webpack
      1. Webpack Loaders
      2. Recipes App with a Webpack Build
7. 6. Props, State, and the Component Tree
   1. Property Validation
      1. Validating Props with createClass
      2. Default Props
      3. Custom Property Validation
      4. ES6 Classes and Stateless Functional Components
   2. Refs
      1. Inverse Data Flow
      2. Refs in Stateless Functional Components
   3. React State Management
      1. Introducing Component State
      2. Initializing State from Properties
   4. State Within the Component Tree
      1. Color Organizer App Overview
      2. Passing Properties Down the Component Tree
      3. Passing Data Back Up the Component Tree
8. 7. Enhancing Components
   1. Component Lifecycles
      1. Mounting Lifecycle
      2. Updating Lifecycle
      3. React.Children
   2. JavaScript Library Integration
      1. Making Requests with Fetch
      2. Incorporating a D3 Timeline
   3. Higher-Order Components
   4. Managing State Outside of React
      1. Rendering a Clock
   5. Flux
      1. Views
      2. Actions and Action Creators
      3. Dispatcher
      4. Stores
      5. Putting It All Together
      6. Flux Implementations
9. 8. Redux
   1. State
   2. Actions
      1. Action Payload Data
   3. Reducers
      1. The Color Reducer
      2. The Colors Reducer
      3. The Sort Reducer
   4. The Store
      1. Subscribing to Stores
      2. Saving to localStorage
   5. Action Creators
   6. Middleware
      1. Applying Middleware to the Store
10. 9. React Redux
    1. Explicitly Passing the Store
    2. Passing the Store via Context
    3. Presentational Versus Container Components
    4. The React Redux Provider
    5. React Redux connect
11. 10. Testing
    1. ESLint
    2. Testing Redux
       1. Test-Driven Development
       2. Testing Reducers
       3. Testing the Store
    3. Testing React Components
       1. Setting Up the Jest Environment
       2. Enzyme
       3. Mocking Components
    4. Snapshot Testing
    5. Using Code Coverage
12. 11. React Router
    1. Incorporating the Router
       1. Router Properties
    2. Nesting Routes
       1. Using a Page Template
       2. Subsections and Submenus
    3. Router Parameters
       1. Adding Color Details Page
       2. Moving Color Sort State to Router
13. 12. React and the Server
    1. Isomorphism versus Universalism
       1. Server Rendering React
    2. Universal Color Organizer
       1. Universal Redux
       2. Universal Routing
    3. Communicating with the Server
       1. Completing Actions on the Server
       2. Actions with Redux Thunks
14. Index